Symptoms and Home Remedies for Freckles
September 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Home Remedies
Freckles are not a health problem, and as such you should not consider them as harmful.
They are merely pigment cells, contained within the skin in small clusters. They can develop on the skin in a random fashion, more so when you are repeatedly exposing yourself to sunlight. This is particularly so with fair colored people.
Symptoms of Freckles :
Freckles are recognized through their different colors of tanning. They may be red, yellow, light brown, brown or black, depending upon your skin color, as usually they will be darker than the skin color, around them. This is due to deposits of melanin pigment.
Home Remedies for Freckles:
- The best home remedy for freckles is to ensure that they do not occur. Preventing freckles means that you do not expose too much of your skin to the sun, or use a sunscreen on a daily basis.
- Getting rid of freckles has been a sort of obsession with the people from ancient times. The traditional medicine was to use fenugreek oil on the affected parts, though of late fenugreek oil has given place to lemon juice.
- A number of cosmetics, some of them with natural products have been floating round the market, even like the bleaching chemicals, which are not effective in controlling the freckles. Of late people are going for freezing, peels, dermabrasion, laser resurfacing and the like to get rid of this condition, but these are neither home made nor or natural, and they can be painful and can cause scars.
- Traditional prescriptions like herbs, seeds and oils are more effective on freckles than cosmetic cover-ups and bleaching creams. Don’t indulge in home touchups with chemically overloaded cosmetics.
- A cream made out of natural ingredients can treat freckles efficiently, which are available over the counter. For instance creams like Lumnaderm can help cure freckles. This is a powerful lightening cream, which balances the different tones of the skin and lightens it. It can also help erase age spots and discoloration of the skin.
- Natural treatments include application of oil, castor or olive oil, to the entire body, and allowing it sink into the skin for at least two hours before you take a rinse. Rinse it with alternative cold and hot water bath, ensuring to wash off the oil remnants with preparations like soap-nut powders, instead of chemically enriched shampoos, so that your skin will remain fresh and prevent freckles from invading you.
Freckles, as said earlier, are not a disease to be bothered about. But then there are people who are uncomfortable with freckles, though in itself it is a commonplace occurrence. Youth hate being teased about freckles, such people may opt for treatments like Lumnaderm, but it is better to prevent freckles from invading your skin by keeping away from sun glare and using sunscreens.
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